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You Can Now Search the Internet With ChatGPT

2024-12-172024-12-17 Danie

The image shows a computer screen displaying a weather forecast for Boston, MA on October 31, 2024, using the ChatGPT 40 interface. The dark mode interface shows the current temperature is 78°F and mostly sunny. In the foreground is a detailed weather report for the next week, including highs and lows, along with weather descriptions. The background shows a standard web browser interface with the URL bar displaying "chatgpt.com". A small, almost unnoticeable, "Share" button is present in the top right corner. There is an alert for a severe weather statement in effect until 8:00 PM EDT. This detail is important as it highlights a safety concern that's not immediately obvious from just looking at the overall sunny forecast. The subtle text and information regarding the 1946 and 1974 temperature records further demonstrate the attention to detail for creating a rich weather history.

ChatGPT search has been out now for about a month and a half, following a Halloween announcement from OpenAI. With this new feature, the company finally rolled out an official competitor to AI search engines […]

This Website Shows How Much Google’s AI Can Glean From Your Photos

2024-12-032024-12-03 Danie

The foreground is dominated by a slide projector, its plastic casing a pale off-white. A slide is in place, showcasing a nighttime scene with what seems to be a cityscape in the background. The image on the slide is dark, a purplish hue, with tall structures barely visible against a starlit sky. The number "E12" is handwritten on the top-left corner of the projector. The scene within the slide suggests a view of a city at night. The image is somewhat grainy. We cannot infer much about the people who might have taken the photo—their racial characteristics, age, economic status, lifestyle, or activities. The emotional tone of the photo is quiet and contemplative. The lack of clear details means it is impossible to guess at any specifics regarding the photographer and image creation time. The light source appears to be artificial, suggesting an indoor environment. The slide itself appears slightly dusty or smudged, which is not easily noticeable at first glance. The color saturation in the image projected onto the slide appears to be altered due to age or processing of the image. The image quality isn't very sharp, making some of the details in the cityscape difficult to discern. There is a subtle reddish-pink glow along the top edge of the slide within the projector, possibly from the internal light source.

Software engineer Vishnu Mohandas decided he would quit Google in more ways than one when he learned that the tech giant had briefly helped the US military develop AI to study drone footage. In 2020, […]

Google’s Gemini AI Chatbot Finally Has an iPhone App

2024-11-142024-11-14 Danie

Three smartphone screenshots: Left one shows a white screen with the prompt text “Hello, M”. The middle screen feedback from Gemini giving feedback about a phone repair image request and showing a suggested image. The third screen is black with the text “Live” at the top and hold and end buttons at the bottom like a phone call is in progress.

Billed as a way to converse with Google’s AI, it’s kind of like using speech-to-text, but without having to press a microphone icon before each question. Just say your questions out loud, and Gemini will […]

IOPaint is an open source locally run Python app for AI-powered photo editing

2024-10-202024-10-20 Danie

Image of a young girl being edited. A yellow vertical line has dissected a woman standing in the background, so that when slid left or right, it will show a before and after view of the woman in the background having been removed from the photo.

There are many cloud services that offer many of these features but they either require registration, or serve adverts, or require payment to do things like background removal, inpainting or outpainting tasks. This app runs […]

New $70 AI Camera works with all Raspberry Pi’s without requiring additional accelerators or a GPU

2024-10-022024-10-02 Danie

A Raspberry Pi camera module - square piece of green circuit board with a black camera mounted on it. Below is seen a brown ribbon cable.

It comes with onboard AI processing that can help Raspberry Pi users develop “edge AI solutions that process visual data” with ease, according to the tiny computer maker. The 12.3 megapixel Raspberry Pi AI Camera […]

This Raspberry Pi project uses AI to tell visually impaired people what’s around them

2024-08-262024-08-26 Danie

Pair of spectacles resting on a green cutting board. In the centre on top is mounted a small camera sensor with a 2cm square circuit board on the back of it. An earphone piece straddles each arm of the spectacles. In the background is a blurry view of a Raspberry Pi computer where the cables lead to.

The idea behind this “third eye” project involves the patient wearing glasses with a little camera on them. This camera feeds information to a Seeed Studio XIAO ESP32S3 Sense and a Raspberry Pi 1 Model […]

DuckDuckGo AI chat offers privacy, no user data used to train models, and a bare-bones text-only experience

2024-08-162024-08-16 Danie

Head of a white duck wearing a green bow-tie. Above its head is a pop-up window stating GPT-4o mini General purpose AI with high built-in moderation created by OpenAI. In the background a browser search window appears with various prompts and choices.

The chat boasts many standard features, such as answering questions when searching on DuckDuckGo, and an interactive chat window. It offers a bare-bones, text-only experience with no multimedia support. The AI chat also includes a […]

This ‘digital twin’ of the planet could rival Google Earth — here’s how you can try it: Google needs Competition

2024-01-192024-01-19 Danie

French startup Kermap has developed a ‘digital twin’ of the Earth that claims to offer the most up-to-date views of our home planet. The programme is called Nimbo Earth Online and it is the only […]

DeepMind’s new AI called GraphCast promises the most accurate 10-day weather forecasts in the world

2023-11-142023-11-14 Danie

Map of the world showing light and dark purple colour hues which indicate high and low pressure areas

A new AI model from Google DeepMind is the world’s most accurate 10-day global weather forecasting system, according to the London-based lab. The model is open sourced, with the code on GitHub. Named GraphCast, the […]

Smart Garbage Trucks with AI are perfect for spotting street maintenance issues

2023-08-242023-08-24 Danie

Side view drawing of a green garbage truck, with a Wi-Fi symbol above it

If you’ve ever had trouble with a footpath, bus stop, or other piece of urban infrastructure, you probably know the hassles of dealing with a local council. It can be incredibly difficult just to track […]

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